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Professor W. L. Westermann. To the many friends of the University this is one a their proudest moments. As in war so in peace the University of Nebraska is playing no small part.
ANNIS S. CHAIKIN.
THE UNIVERSITY TODAY
The fiftieth birthday of the University of Nebraska is a kind of family holiday—not quite a day of rest, as it has proved, but one of a good deal of good feeling. The external relations of the University are peculiarly happy at the moment, for its record in the war just ended has been such as to bring it the touch of pride necessary to a pleasant sense of self-satisfaction. And its internal relations are more than usually harmonious. We may be forgiven, therefore, for a little more complacency than might be appropriate at another time and outside the family, and a little more frankness of self-examination than would be palatable from outsiders.
The moment ought to be thoughtful as well as festive for the University may be felt to have come of age at its fiftieth year. It is no longer an experiment. It has gone through its time of gangling growth, has had its periods of stagnation and its spurts of expansion, and has emerged into maturity with the complete organization of the typical American university. For the typical American university is the state university. Whether it is a finer product than the endowed or the denominational school is a matter of opinion, but it has the distinction of having arisen out of the direct impulse of the people themselves, and of having expanded, college by college and department by department, in response to their immediate demand. Its support has been not the inertia of an endowment, but the appropriation moment by moment of what they have wanted to afford for that kind of thing, and its attendance has been
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